1. Using MOOCs to Spur Innovation ELI 2014 Leadership Seminar - Day 1

2. Amy Collier
Director of Digital Learning Initiatives, Office of Vice Provost for Online Learning, Stanford University
Karen Vignare
Associate Provost,
Center for Innovation in Learning, University of Maryland University College

3. program goals - Understand the landscape of MOOCs
- Demonstrate skills necessary for leading during times of adaptive challenges
- Know how to perform needs analysis when considering innovative tools and processes
- Develop confidence and in undertaking leadership challenges that emerge as a result of innovation
- Design a plan for leading discussions on campus regarding MOOCs with various stakeholders
- Design cross-function teams to work collaboratively on challenges

4. developing your toolbox
empathy interviewing and mapping
SWOT analysis
coaching and aligning teams
strategic planning
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5. hatful of quotes
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6. being a leader in a time of change
communication, persuasion, consensus/consultation decision-making, etc. At Valencia College, the Circles of Innovation “ Circles of Innovation is an evolution of work done at Valencia College as part of The Great Teachers Colloquium, and it is driven by a few underlying philosophies of learning, innovation, and professional development.
First and foremost, We know that “sometimes the purest, most effective, type of faculty development is well-facilitated shoptalk” (Mike McHargue) In Destination Great Teachers we learned that getting faculty together to discuss their successes, failures, problems, & solutions is not only rewarding to them, but that it can be motivating and trajectory changing with regards to classroom practices.

7. leadership in MOOC contexts
What are the tensions? questions? challenges?
What do MOOCs do for universities that is different than in previous eras?
What are the opportunities to seize? What can’t we forget to do?
What are the risks? Who is most at risk? ? ? ?
Amy to lead with research from MOOC conference.

8. leadership in MOOC contexts
Laurie Alexander
Associate University Librarian for Learning and Teaching
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Jolee West
Director of Academic Computing & Digital Library Projects
Wesleyan University
focus on strategy

9. BREAK TIME!

10. building an ecosystem

11. Adaptive challenges
- emerge from complex historical and/or organizational contexts
- challenge the core values of an organization or system
- require changes to “business as usual”
- require changes at all levels of an organization, leadership must involve people at lower levels
ACTIVITY: in what ways do MOOCs present adaptive challenges

12. MOOCs as adaptive challenges
- Complex historical/organizational influences (tax revolt, end of Cold War, cost-shifting to students, accountability revolution, digital media, ed tech section, to name a few)
- Core business practices and values are in question (value of liberal education, faculty life, promotion and tenure, research orientations)
- Which universities have responded best to these challenges? Which have not?
1) tax revolts, end of the cold war, no net expansion in public sector, cost-shifting to students & families, accountability revolution, cumulative advancement of digital media, ambitious educational technology sector
2) value of education, value of liberal education, profession of faculty,

13. educational innovations
(Steven Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From)
(Rogers Diffusion of Innovation)
(Explanation of Christensen’s Innovation Theory & Job-to-be-Done)
Breakthrough Models Incubator, IDEO,
Perhaps watch one or two, but summarize the trends to focus on MOOCs to the next big thing...its a process

14. developing strategy what future are you working toward?
what does this future look like for students? for faculty?
what will have to change for this future to take place?
Mission is typically critical here unless your innovators include top executives

15. homework Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats
Karen will do this SWOT or TWOS
10-15 minutes of prep